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One Thing Stolen

Booklist Starred Review: "An enigmatic, atmospheric, and beautifully written tale." "Kephart at her poetic and powerful best. ONE THING STOLEN is a masterwork—a nest of beauty and loss, a flood of passion so sweet one can taste it. This is no ordinary book. It fits into no box. It is its own box—its own language." — A.S. King. Find out more about this Florence novel, due out from Chronicle Books in April 2015, by clicking on the image.

LOVE: A Philadelphia Affair

forthcoming, August 2015, Temple University Press. For more information, click on the image.

Going Over

GOING OVER is a 2014 Booklist Editors' Choice, the Gold Medal Winner/Historical Fiction/Parents' Choice Awards, an ABA Best Books for Children & Teens, 2015 TAYSHAS Reading List, YALSA BFYA selection, a Junior Library Guild selection,voted as a 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime, a Booklist Top Ten Historical Novel for Youth, a School Library Journal Pick of the Day, an Amazon Big Spring Book, an iBooks Spring's Biggest Book, and has received starred reviews from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness.. Click on the image for more information.

Click on the image BELOW to hear my WHYY interview about teaching GOING OVER in the schools.

I was a child writer-dreamer who never strayed far from that path. Today I’m the award-winning author of nineteen books—dreaming my way toward more by night, while running a boutique marketing communications firm by day. I'm privileged to teach creative nonfiction at the University of Pennsylvania in spring semesters. I love writing about the intersection of place and memory for the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. I am honored to review literature for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Always and most importantly, I am privileged to be a mom. GOING OVER, a Berlin 1983 novel, was released from Chronicle on April 1, 2014. My work has been or is being translated into sixteen languages. All content Copyright 2007-2014 Beth Kephart Books.

FLOW: Now available as a paperback!

"There is no more profound or moving exploration of Philadelphia’s history."—Nathaniel Popkin Originally released in 2007, Flow is now available as an affordable paperback. More on this book—the autobiography of a Philadelphia river—can be found by clicking on the image.

Nest. Flight. Sky.

"... strives to give all those who grieve the hope that there is peace, a peace that we can live with and thrive with, as long as we remember to breathe and be alive." — Savvy Verse and Wit. Click the link to get your copy for just $2.99

HANDLING THE TRUTH: on the making of memoir

Winner, Books for a Better Life/Motivational Award. Named Top Writing Book by Poets and Writers. Featured in O Magazine. Starred Reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus, a Top Ten September Book at BookPage. For more on this book please tap the image.

Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent

Named a Kirkus 2013 Best Middle Grade Book of the Year. Winner of the Parrott Library Honor Award. STARRED Kirkus: "An outstanding and ultimately life-affirming tale." For more, tap the image..

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Lamp Lighters and Seed Sowers: Tomorrow's YA

Monday, March 11, 2013

The days are rarely what we imagine they will be. The news comes in. The shock. The losses. Ordinary days, as my friend Katrina Kenison has written, are, often, the greatest gifts of all.

One of the greatest gifts I've been given in recent months is the chance to write an occasional piece for the Inquirer—pieces about the city I unashamedly love. I don't write journalism, don't know how. I just write my heart. And I take my camera out there, too, because sometimes my lens writes the stories better than my handful of words.

This past weekend I was blessed by the publication of a photo essay about that part of Philadelphia once known as Bush Hill. I wrote about my travels through that area years ago and the revival of Eastern State Penitentiary.

You can write all you want, take whatever photos cross your path. It's nothing without an editor and a designer. And so today I thank Kevin Ferris and his team for the layout that they chose for the front page of this past Sunday's Currents section.

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Beth, I enjoyed your article and pictures of Eastern State. I was a social worker in the Pa. System and was very familiar with Eastern State.Eastern State was the first Penitentiary in the world and copied by others. The city of Ushuaia, Argentina copied our Philadelphia Plan at their local prison. Now the prison is a museum and within each of the cells are pictures of other prisons, but none of Eastern. Your pics are great and I was hoping you could help me acquire some more for the Ushuaia museum? Thank you,Stephen Ettinger

Thanks so much for sharing this information about the prison museum in Ushuaia. It would be great if Eastern State were included. Hi-res images can be downloaded from our online press room - http://www.easternstate.org/contact/press-room/photos